Future Earth Photography

David Moffitt started out as a record producer and label manager in the music business, discovering his love of photography through providing publicity shots for bands, and 25 years on, he is an acknowledged leader in the field of portrait photography. David Moffitt started out as a record producer and label manager in the music business, discovering his love of photography through providing publicity shots for bands, and 25 years on, he is an acknowledged leader in the field of portrait photography. It’s often quite surprising how people find their way to a photographic career and for David Moffitt, the catalyst that turned an interest in taking pictures into a full-on business was a straightforward offer to help out by shooting pictures as a favour for his then employer. My background was in the music business,” he says, initially owning a recording studio, then becoming a record producer, label owner and band manager before running the UK office of a Belgian Heavy Metal label called Mausoleum Records. I had always dabbled in photography as a part-time business and could see how much money they were spending on photography. I offered to help out and suddenly it was my responsibility to provide photographs of all the artists on the label roster (over 80 acts). Soon I was spending all my time flying around Europe, hiring studios and going on tour with bands.

Just returned from London where I won the national Portrait Photographer of the Year Award. Chosen from over 1000 entries, a single makeover image of Georgia Austin from Doncaster won a trophy and a prize fund of £5000 which included £500 in cash for Georgia. Makeup artist on the session was Sally Morton and retoucher was Admir Alicic. Georgia (16) is planning on using the images from the session to launch a modelling career.